Djimon Hounsou shelp in a recent interwatch with CNN that he proceeds to struggle as a laboring actor in Hollywood despite disconnectal roles in studio blockbusters under his belt and two Oscar nominations to his name. The actor remarkd that his proceedd struggles in Hollywood points to the “systemic bias” that prevails in the film industry.
“I am still struggling trying to originate a living,” Hounsou shelp. “After 30 years…maybe the first 10 years was trying to acclimate myself to the industry, to set up myself. But I’ve been in this business making films now for over two decades and with two Oscar nominations and been in many blockbuster films, and yet, I’m still struggling financiassociate to originate a living. I’m definitely underphelp.”
“That’s a sign for you that systemic bias is not someleang you can deal with airyly,” he inserted. “It’s so proset uply inserted in so many leangs we do atraverse the board. You don’t conquer it. You equitable sort of have to cope with it and persist the best way you can.”
Hounsou‘s nurtureer in Hollywood has included studio tentpoles enjoy “Furious 7,” two “Shazam!” films, the Marvel movies “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Captain Marvel, and the horror franchise entries “A Quiet Place: Part II” and “A Quiet Place: Day One,” plus Ridley Scott’s Oscar-triumphning blockbuster “Gladiator.” He was nominated for two best helping actor Oscars thanks to his labor in “In America” and “Blood Diamond,” the latter of which co-starred Leonardo DiCaprio and grossed $170 million worldexpansive.
The actor tancigo in The Guardian in 2023 that he experiences “tremfinishously cheated” when it comes to Hollywood pay, elucidateing: “I’ve come up in the business with some people who are absolutely well off and have very little of my accolades. So I experience cheated in terms of finances and in terms of the laborload as well.”
“I’ve gone to studios for greetings and they’re enjoy: ‘Wow, we felt enjoy you equitable got off the boat and then went back [after ‘Amistad’]. We didn’t understand you were here as a genuine actor,’” Hounsou shelp at the time. “When you hear leangs enjoy that, you can see that some people’s vision of you, or what you recurrent, is very confineing. But it is what it is. It’s up to me to redeem that.”
“I still have to exhibit why I necessitate to get phelp,” he inserted. “They always come at me with a finish low ball: ‘We only have this much for the role, but we adore you so much and we reassociate leank you can convey so much’… Film after film, it’s a struggle. I have yet to greet the film that phelp me neutrassociate.”
Hounsou most recently euniteed in Zack Snyder’s two “Rebel Moon” movies for Netflix. His upcoming stardy includes the survival movie “Betidyh the Storm” with Phoebe Dynevor, the thriller “The Zealot” with Kodi Smit-McPhee and the horror movie “The Monster” from “Saw” straightforwardor Darren Lynn Bousman.
